Q&A: “Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot”
IPS-Inter Press Service, November 20, 2009 Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian VANCOUVER, Canada – In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United…
‘Liberation was just a big lie’
Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, Nov. 19, 2009 Outspoken Afghan MP says Canadian mission is a big waste of time Malalai Joya, who was in Toronto to promote her book, A…
Afghan women’s leader Joya brings anti-war message to Vancouver
David Beers, TheTyee.ca, November 13, 2009 Joya wrote her memoir with Vancouver writer and anti-war activist Derrick O’Keefe Malalai Joya, the youngest woman ever elected to Afghanistan’s parliament, is in…
Suspended Afghan MP Malalai Joya wants NATO’s mission to end
Travis Lupick, Vancouver Free Press, November 12, 2009 “Occupation will never bring liberation, and it is impossible to bring democracy by war.” Canada’s scheduled 2011 pullout from Afghanistan can’t come…
Afghan’s ‘Bravest Woman’ Calls on U.S. to Leave
Amy Littlefield, WeNews, November 12, 2009 Joya called the current regime under the recently re-elected President Karzai “mentally similar to the Taliban” Malalai Joya, called the “bravest woman in Afghanistan,”…
Ex-Afghan MP to speak in Victoria believes ‘occupation’ is no answer
Katie Derosa, The Victoria Times Colonist, November 12, 2009 Joya is a fierce critic of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government, which she said is fraught with crime and corruption. 2007:…
Afghan politician visits West to call for withdrawal of troops
Larry Johnson, Looking for Trouble, November 11, 2009 “My people are fed up. That is why we want an immediate end to the U.S. occupation.” Malalai Joya, an Afghan politician…
Interview Malalai Joya: Why the U.S. has to go
Socialist Worker, November 10, 2009 Abdullah is the main candidate of the warlords, and he is seen as a war criminal in Afghanistan Malalai Joya has been called the “bravest…
Malalai Joya a ‘worthy choice’ for Nobel
Dave Markland, Rabble.ca, November 10, 2009 Her autobiography impressed the heck out of America’s leading intellectual Noam Chomsky Malalai Joya, fittingly described by the BBC as the bravest woman in…
Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya speaks in So Cal
Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2009 Her targets were warlords and corruption at home first, but it was her unflinching criticism of American policies At age 27, Malalai…